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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
Need Shaking Badly.

"uIISu
The state board of railway and ware
house commissioners arrived in special
ear on Thursday evening last week, and
left the following morning before 8
o'clock, the very forenoon they were adj
vertised to be here. 1t seems that they
were not pyer-anxiouS to hear. COM
plants, as several parties had intended
to see the commission, but did not get
the opportunity on account of their
leaving so early. One member of the
commission is credited with method of
shaking the railroads over the mouth of
hell, and some of our citizens expressed
it as their opinion that it might do the
commission gOOd..to be shaken over that
dreadful place. We hear that the COM
mission accomplished more good at
other places on the line than they did at
Warren, otherwise their sphere of use
fulness would be small. Many people
condemn the system as being needless
expense to the state, but we are not
ready to do so yet. A commission COM
posed of the right men can undoubtedly
do a great deal to secure to the people
their rights,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12

from. This new tangled theology, you
know, has gotten entirely away from first
principles. Parsons don't preach such ser
mons now as they did in my early days. Then
they took real gospel texts and hit from the
shoulder at every lick. Now they hunt for
the soft, easy passages Of scripture, and then
wade In deep water all around the text. But
that isn't what wanted to talk about.
~
''The sermon heard tonight has set me to
thinking about the difference III the methods
of education now and forty years ago.
have been trying to figure out whether We
really have made any progress. The CON-
mon school is great advance over the old
time method, yet it seems to me that we have
travelled so fast that We are getting away
from the common school, / read the other
day what the GLOBE had to say about the
necessity for building an addition to the
High school, and asked myself what bust
ness has common school system with u
High school anyhow? When we get beyond
the district school where are we going to
draw the line? The High school, as 1 under
stand it, is a sort of a halfway college Now,
if we are going to give college education
free to every child, what argument is there to
urge against free university also?
T. " ~
"And If we are to have free universities.
then we must have our free law schools, and
medical schools, and engineering schools,
and the good Lord only knows where we are
to stop. 1t looks to me that we have over
leaped ourselves, and instead of going ahead
we had better check upa little. When we
educated forty years ago on the old Solo
NORMAN plan, a schooling counted for some
thing. Now it is only lick and promise,
and the taxpayers have to pay like thunder
for that
Il am not kicking" said the old citizen as
he arose and bowed himself out of the door,
Il only wished to supplement the old FASH
. Toned sermon heard tonight with few old
fashioned remarks of my own"
%*
tate dealers last night In city where there
are comparatively few real estate dealers and
only honest ones, this admirable sermon has
no application. But the GLOBE publishes
full synopsis of it in the hope that the good
seed sown by Brother SMITH may find lodg-
ing place in the heart of some Omaha or
Kansas City real estate dealer, all of whom
read the GLOBE, and with profit We are in
clined to think that Brother SMITHS intima-
ton about the judicious Investments to be
made i'll the upper and better country will be
misinterpreted by the Kansas City folks. Be-
fore three days some of them will be adver-
Using lots in the New Jerusalem addition to
Kansas City, and will be Offering at auction
soft snaps in the suburban district known as
Balnlah Land.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
THE EDITORS COMMENTS.
A Farmer Next.

Crookston Times.
The state press is already engaged
with alacrity in the task of manufac-
turing successor to his present excel
lency, McGill. The Democratic papers
generally insist that he will be Demo-
GRAFT and the Republican press don't
know about that. But it is interesting
to watch them and still more so to see
how most of the Democrats anchor to
Doc Ames, while the Republicans are
graphing about for something less
ephemeral than their dandy McGil.
1t is alleged that Little Leo'' Fletcher
has satiated of Mac and thinks now he
is in a '.heller of fix" than he was in
the old Winnipeg days. He managed
so that McGill pulled through but
Mac has some of the old Scoteh-Irish
ObStinacy that he breathed in from the
air of Crawford county, Pa, and he
won't dance when the rim -master
crackIasheS-at least not always. So
Merriam. Nelson, Gibbs and COmstock
are being agitated. Never mind, gem
tlemen, the next governor will be true
blue farmer from Polk county.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
His Last Political Days.

Hutchinson Leader. .sEE- 81
United States Senator Cushman K.
Davis is the attorney for United States
Senator Dwight NJ Sabin in the great
suit of the Northwestern Car company
against the latter. Senator Davis in his
plea the other. day delivered a f1owery
eulogy upon the sainted integrity and
dOve-like purity of Senator Sabin, who
will doubtless use the speech for cam
paign document when the time for elect
ing his successor draws nigh. But even
a certificate of moral character from the
lofty Davis wont strengthen Boss Sabin
in the opinion of the people of Mime
sofa. He has successfully ssworked"
Our legislatures for swindling prison
contracts and for a seatin: the United
States senate, but the legislature will
never again assemble in this state which
will dare return this INSCRIPTIONS mill
ionaire and ambitious machine politician
to seat in the councils of the nation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
A SPECIAL coRREsPoNDENT.

Dear friend, Isit alone tonight,
And 70 you fem would write;
But not In humdrum black and white,
With common ink and paper
Such words as l would say to YOU
Should blaZoned be i'll tender hue,
As monks of old in missal drew
Initials tall and taper.
If could borrow just a part
of all their quaint symbolic art,
might translate what's i'll my heart,
Perhaps, i'll fitting fashion
But where the modern pen can hold
Sufficient store of red and GOLD
TO paint this leafiet snowy cold,
With tints of pain or passion.
In vain you'll seek then, on this page,
Fair fancies from bygone age:
Yet, if you wish my thoughts to gaupe,
There is n way eff cleaning
Love golden grain that through them shine !;
So do not heed these written signs,
For you must read between the lines
To gather all my meaning
London World.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
Happy Harry.

When in Minneapolis few months
ago we attended the Salvation army
services a couple of times, and es-
pecially noticed the striking manifesto
lions of piety shown by the leader,
known as Happy Harry. The excess of
spiritual joy and zeal which he mani
tested, and his devoted humility in
prayer, as he not only kneeled down,
likely to soon forget. But this world of
rapid changes has wrought change in
Happy Harry.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
Hold Him to the Record.

LIE Sueur sentinel.
The record of the bill. as presented by
Mr.. Bowen, does not leave the smallest
hole for those interested in it's passage
to escape the charge of fraud in amend
ing the title after its passage by the
legislature, and without this fraudulent
amendment of the title of the bill it was
clearly unconstitutional. 1t was,
therefore, a bill that should not have
been signed by the governor, whether
it was a meritoriouS bill or not.
These facts: the unconstitutionality of
the bill under the title as passed, and
the proof of fraud shown to the COVER
nor before he signed the bill, leave him
without an honest defense. He was
bound to have knowledge of the first
fact, and he was bound to investigate
the second fact after it had been
clearly pointed out to him. His
pretence that he signed the bill be-
cause it was meritoriOus, when its
whole purpose was apparent, which was
simply to relieve the railroad COM
pany of about 81, 000, 900 of back taxes,
under the pretence of relieving settlers
who had bought the lands, is merely an
assumption of the virtue and courage
that is too hollow to deceive the moment
the full facts are brought to light. And
his pretence that the fraudulent amend
ment of the title bill had not been
proven, after Mr.. Bowen had clearly
shown the fraud, is too contemplate a
subterfuge for governor to
offer, for it was his duty,
even if the smallest faint of fraud
had been shown, to investigate the facts
easily done by looking at the records
of the legislature-in order to protect
the people of the state. But the people
of Minnesota, at least some of them,
know that the bill in question is not the
first one that has been signed for other
reasons than the public good. The
governor must be held firmly to the
record as made up. III
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
The Inconsistent p. p.


The Pioneer Press is nothing if not
inconsistent. In long editorial yester-
day it bewails the fact that Samuel j.
Randall was successful in the Pennsyl-
yania Democratic convention i'll admin
tration theory Of tariff eAe refo 1e and hay
ing embodied in the party platform a
plank which suits the very sound pro-
tective ideas of Mr.. Randall. The
course of the Pioneer Press may well
be termed political hypocricy." 1t
condemns Samuel j. Randall for remain
ing in the Democratic party and preach
ing Republican tariff doctrine. The
Pioneer Press breaches Democratic free
trade doctrine and hangs on the coat
tails of the Republican party.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12

have cheap fuel. and as the winter
more at the mercy of the heartless coal
barons who are filling their pockets by
taking advantage of our necessities.
When the results of protective tariff
present themselves in such serious as
peet isn't it about time that we were
doing something to protect ourselves
against the ubiquitous eXortionS which
are being practiced upon us.
The country has solved the transpor-
tation problem in reasonably salts
factory manner. The next thing to do
Is to address ourselves to the work of
breaking up the internal combinations
which are formed for the purpose of
specializing on the neceSSaries of life.
The land sharks and the cattle baronS
have been forced to the wall under the
pressure of an honest national admins
tration. The wheat gambling rings are
falling to pieces, because of their in
herent rotteneSS. Now the coal barons
must follow. They have got to go, and
there is no use in dallying with the
proposition. They will not go until
they are forced out. Robbers never re-
linquish their hold as long as there is
prospect of getting away with the Swag.
The first and most essential step toward
breaking up the coal combination is to
abolish the tariff on coal. Then, if nee
eSSary, to follow with laws prohibiting
such combinations and providing the
severeSt penalties for violations of the
law.
There is no time to be lost in this mat
ter. Congress should tackle the ques-
ton as soon as it convenes. Even then,
though bill should pass congress, it
will be too late to avert the suffering
that must result the coming winter
from the eXtortionS practiced by the coal
ring. Coal is now at an eXtortionate
price, with all the prospect of an up
ward tendency. There is bound to be
great deal of suffering here in the
Northwest on that account. The rich
VII not suffer, but they will feel the
injustice of the eXtortion, all the same.
1t is among the laboring classes, those
who deserve protection most, that the
groSSeSt injustice will be done. The
high price of coal is going to make
tough times among the poor people. If
the winter should prove long one, and
hard one. charitably disposed people
of means will have many drafts on their
charitable instincts before warm
weather comes again. The money they
contribute for the purpose of supplying
fuel to poor people during the winter
will only be a temporary bridging over
of the trouble. The proper thing is to
remove it forever by laying the axe to
the root of the coal extortion. The way
to do that is to remove the tariff.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
The Taxpayers Must Suffer.

Sleepy Eye Herald.
Judge Wilson's rejoinder to the letter
of Gen. Cole is a pretty effectual settler
of the plausible arguments made by the
latter in behalf of the bill which relieved
the st. Paul IL Chicago railroad company
from the payment of its back taxes.
There seems to be general cOndem-
nation of the whole affair from all parts
OF the state. 1t certainly is beyond any
question of partisan politics. Whoever
treats it as mere matter of party CAPT.
tai does not appreciate its grave import
ance, and on the other hand, whoever
treats it lightly, or attempts to obscure
or conceal its enormity for fear that it
may injure politicians who have had
hand in it, is an enemy to the people of
the state. This is not political ques-
ton at all; it is question of right and
wrong. And now what is to be done?
1t is true that the bill is still unconsti+
tutiOnal, and if county officials ignored
it, would not avail the company all ex-
emption from paying all it's back taxes.
But the fact is the law is assumed to be
valid. Besides that, the company is dis
posing OF the lands at d sacrifice just as
fast as it can to get them Off its hands!j
In practice the law is carried out, audit
is quite probable that if any legal steps
were taken to thwart its provisions,
that every acre of the lands would be
transferred before the matter could be
determined. As for an investiga-
ton into the methods by which
the bill became a law, there is
very little, if anything, to be gained
by it. ANY Individual may examine
the records and prove the forgery to his
own satisfaction. Suppose an investia
CATION were ordered. = Who shall order
it? Who shall constitute the investiga-
tors? Any one can see that it would be-
come an affair of party politics. Some
obscure clerk would be sent away into
the wilderness as scape-goat and
everybody else wonld be whitewashed.
This is melancholy truth, but truth it
is. Anyhow the st. Paul & Chicago
Railroad company-with the assistance
of its friendships got away, and when
the state needs money to support its gov
eminent and it's various charitable and
educational institutions, it will have to
levy the tax upon honest business enter-
priSeS and tOiling industry.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
why Not Take a Trip?

West Superior (Wis.) Inter Ocean.
The newspaper men having access to
the GLOBES columns (and pretty much
all of them have, for that purpose) are
numerically snarling at Frank earle,
managing editor of the Pioneer Press,
under whom many of them have en-
dured disagreeable terms of office. earle
is an able fellow, but is getting irascible
in his young old age. He ought to take
trip around the world for his health,
work with much better nature. AS a
travelling correspondent he would add
interest to the Pioneer Press columns.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
TO-DAY's WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Sept. II, 1 a. m.-1ndica-
tons: For Wisconsin and Iowa: Warmer,
threatening weather with rain, light to fresh
southerly winds increasing in force and be-
coming variable. For Minnesota: Threat
ening weather with rain, rising followed by
falling temperature, fresh TO brisk southerly
winds, shifting TO northweSterly. For Da-
kota: Local rains, followed by cooler, fair
weather. light 10 fresh winds, becoming
northerly.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
ST. PAUL, Sept. 10.-The following observa-
tons were made at ; As p. NJ, local time:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
Ex-WARDEA REED.
What the State Papers Say About
the Charges Against Him.
WANT TO HEAR BOTH SIDES
Some Of Them Believe he Will Come
Out Of the Scrape With
Clean Skirts.
Unreliable Testimony.


Mankato Review.
In last weeks Review we referred to
the charges against Capt. Reed, late
warden of the state prison, as based on
the affidavits of Mrs. Weishar and Mrs.
Rhinebart, both imprisoned for murder
ing their husbands. The former was
from the town of Kasota, and is woman
wholly destitute of character and would
not be believed on oath. There may be
other testimony against Capt. Reed, and
if so it will probably be developed by
the investigation, but these women are
outlaws to all decency and should never
be put upon the stand.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
Such Men Are Wanted.

1t is really remarkable how a man
with apparently no experience what
ever can accomplish such vast amount
OF effective work as president of our
great State Agricultural and Fair asso-
citation as is Hon. w. X. Merriam. His
executive and business qualifications
seem to be almost unlimited. Under his
management, ably aided by Hon. III. E.
Hoard, the efficient secretary, our state
fair promises to be by far the most sue
cessful of any yet held. Owing to the
fact that Mr.. Merriam is displaying such
a large amount of energy and ability in
this work. some 'ssore heads" treason
UNKNOWN are claiming he is doing all
this for political purposes" Say what
they may, it is just such men we want
for political PURPOSES"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
STRAY SUNBEAMS.

A correspondent wants to know if it is
polite to gaze at people through an opera
glass, as is SO frequently done in theaterS 1t
is very common thing and often done by
people who ought to be well up in matters of
etiquette, yet we wouldn't like to vouch for
the pOliteness of it. On the contrary there
is popular impression that it is the very
acme of rudeness There was an illustration
of this in Pittsburg theater the other night
well=knOwn dude of the town leyeled his
opera glass on respectable married lady
who sat on the opposite side of the theater
He did it in such way as to attract the at
tention of the audience, and to convince the
lady that she was being made the object of
the impairment puppy'S gaze. When her
husband, who was seated by the lady, rose
from his seat and hurled potato at the
dude striking him square i'll the face, the
whole audience applauded the husbands
heroism
Yet there are plenty of people who use
opera glasses in promiscuous sort of way
at a theater without any intention of rude
ness. 1t is more the act of thoughtlessncss
orto crafty curiosity than impoliteness. An
opera glass trained on the stage. is always in
order. But when it comes to scrutinizing an
audience proper statement of the rule
Wouiu DC Ills. IL Is permissible Tor lady to
look through her opera glass whenever and
at whomsoever she pleases, but it is not an
evidence of good breeding to be staring at
strangers through glasses A gentleman
should never use an opera glass in public
place, except by permission of the lady
whom he escorts, and then it is only allow
able that the glasses be directed toward the
stage or the boxes.
~
When the czar of Russia offered Nine.
PATTI the professorship of vocal music in
the Royal consersatoire at ST. Petersburg he
evidently thought that he was comforting a
great honor upon the renowned diva. But
PATTI didn't look at it in that way, as she
promptly declined it. believing that it was
more honor to be an humble woman in Wales
than professor" i'll Russia.
The Old Citizen dropped into the. GLOBE
Office on his way from church last evening.
Il heard sermon tonight from the text.
Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child,'a' he re-
marked, as he brushed the dandruff from his
coat collar and dropped into vacant chair.
1t did me good, too. Let me see,n and he
began to count on his fingers, sit is Just forty
years this fall since heard that text preached
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
A Game ofBluf.

Lake Crystal Union.
The st. Peter Tribune takes sides
with Gov. McGill On the land tax bill,
and says Cole Younger needs to pass
his opinion: Bluff is pretty game, but
it doesn't always win. Does the Tri-
bune honestly believe that such bill
as was approved by Gov. McGill passed
both branches of the legislature? DO
you? 1fSo, you're bigger Jack than
we take YOU to be
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
Explain More Fully.

MarSnall NeWS-MeSSenger.
The Mankato Review makes casual
reference to political trade that is to
make Mr.. Merriam governor and Gov.
McGill congressional successor to Mr..
Lind. When is this arrangement to go
into effect, and what Is going to be done
for Mr.. Lind? And how is Mai. Strait
to be disposed of? These political
trades" are too complex and far-reach-
ing to be disposed of with such slight
mention of details.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
Will Probably Not Attend.

Browns Valley Reporter.
Cole Younger is associate editor of the
Prison Mirror, a paper published by the
convictS of Saltwater state prison. A
rush of sob work" will probably pre-
vent Cole from attending the next edi-
tOrial excursion.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
The Armour of Literature.

chicago Times.
A st. Paul paper says that the sale of
Ignatius Donnelly's forthcoming book
is already so far assured that his royalty
will within year amout to at least
100000. Mr.. Donnelly has an interest
in the Bacon theory beyond what it ex-
cites as great literary question. 1t
in the Bacon line he might become the
Phil Armour of literature.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
Two Sides to the Case.


Capt. ]. A. Reed, ex-warden of the
state penitentiary, is at present under
going severe investigation on some
very ugly charges. So far the testimony
appears to be pretty strong against him,
but there are always two sides to a case,
and the captains many friends hope
that his statement will put a different
look on the affair.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
odious that no man of brains and ambi.
ton desires to share the responsibility
Serves the People Well.

Brownsville News.
Some of our Republican contempora-
ries are already talking up Congress
man Wilson's successor. The Pioneer
Press says that almost anybody can be
elected If Wilson keeps on writing let
tiers. Not so. Those letter are written
in the right direction, exposing one of
the grandest frauds ever perpetrated on
a taX-burdened people, and it would be
funny indeed to have these self-same
people go back on the man that serves
them naught but good. Because the
Pioneer Press don't like Judge Wilson'S
letters it's no sign that the people don't.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
A Sophomore management.

Farlbault Democrat.
The break of the Pioneer Press, in
to the possible candidacy of
Senator Beck for vice president, when
he is not eligible. beinga foreigner, was
most ludicrous. p. II. Kelly had to en-
tighten them about it. Undoubtedly
Mr.. Wheelock did know better, but
under its present sophomore manage
ment its editors can be taught good
deal by st. Paul grOcerS or any other
line of intelligent readers.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
A BATTLING OF Dry Bones.

Benson Times.
There seems to be a general unearth-
ing of the old skeletons which partisan
interests heretofore kept well covered
up. The governor and ex-attorney gen.
eral are not the only persons getting
scOrched. Ex-Warden Reed, of the states
prison, is getting some very unenviable
advertising in the overhauling of his
official record.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
Sermons Would Be Better.

1t seems that the states prison nasti-
ness was obtained under promise that it
should not be published. The vile dirty
stories never ought to have appeared in
print. If the papers have nothing bet
ter to record as news than the fishy
stories of life convictS, it would be wise
to fall back on their old barrels of SER
mons for filling instead